By D. John Shaw (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230316719
ISBN-13: 9780230316713
ISBN-10: 1349368954
ISBN-13: 9781349368952
This ebook specializes in the transformation of the WFP into the world's biggest humanitarian employer, offering an in-depth account of responses to more and more huge and complicated usual and man-made mess ups. It examines meals reduction and appears to the recent modalities which are required to make foodstuff extra to be had to these in dire need.
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The unique and unprecedented nature of the WFP’s original constitution was that the new experimental programme was to be undertaken jointly by the parent organizations of FAO in Rome, Italy and the UN in New York (WFP, 1963a). The rationale given for this unprecedented arrangement was that WFP activities were perceived to be included in the mandates of both organizations. The UN functioned ‘in the general field of economic and social development’, while the FAO had special responsibilities ‘for securing improvements in nutrition and in the efficiency of food production and distribution’.
The climate of opinion continued to be against multilateral action in operational fields, as distinct from advisory or informational roles. An expanded programme of surplus food utilization: an expert study The FAO’s persistence eventually paid off. In the context of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign (FFHC), which the FAO director-general B. R. Sen had launched in 1960 (Sen, 1982: 137–72), a resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly in October 1960 on the ‘Provision of Food Surpluses to Food-Deficient People through the United Nations System’ (resolution 1496 (XVI)).
He was not opposed to it but was sceptical that it would clear the various US departments in Washington, DC and the US Congress. That was why he went ahead with his proposal in Rome after obtaining approval from the White House. 13 McGovern initiated a meeting in New York with US representatives to the UN on 10 November 1961. A second meeting was held at the Department of State in Washington, DC four days later. The State Department generally favoured a limited experimental plan along the lines proposed by McGovern in Rome, and the larger food aid proposal was no longer pursued.